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Richard Lochhead says Brexit will leave Scotland ‘in a much worse situation than where we started’

The legal text of a Brexit deal has been agreed between the EU and the UK, and accepted by Theresa May's Cabinet. Here is a summary of the bigger picture in EU-UK relations for research and innovation 

‘Mathematics was so natural, politics so brutal,’ says star mathematician and 2010 Fields medallist with sights on becoming the next mayor of Paris

Congresswoman poised to become new House science chair pledges to ‘restore its credibility’

The EU’s €1B ten-year Quantum Technologies Flagship finally got off the ground with the award of €132M spread across 20 projects. But is it too little, too late?

The government is allotting C$950 million to a new concept for technology translation and commercialisation that borrows ideas from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes and the UK’s Catapults

Europe is putting informed opinion ahead of scientific evidence and precaution ahead of risk evaluation. Innovation will be the casualty

European Commission accepts ‘limited impact’ of certificate scheme intended to help researchers who fail to make the cut for Horizon 2020 grants get funding from other sources

EU research programmes must remain open to non-member countries, groups say in joint appeal

It’s early days for full-scale quantum computers, but researchers claim there is an ‘immediate danger’ of Europe falling behind. ‘The heat is on - we have to react,’ says Jürgen Mlynek, chair of the project’s steering committee

OECD study finds huge variation, by country and sector, in the use of digital technologies in business

Embattled university confirms it will relocate the majority of its programmes from Budapest to Austria in ‘a moment of great sadness’

Alliances are sprouting up to take advantage of the funding, but universities wonder how far the money will go